Istanbul: Between the Global and the Local

Book Overview

This groundbreaking volume investigates the processes of globalization in Istanbul, one of the oldest and grandest of world cities. Explaining the course of the conflicts and the compromises involved in maintaining a precarious urbanity, this theoretically informed volume focuses on the fields of struggle ranging from politics to heritage, humor to music, public space to housing.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 084769495X
• ISBN13: 9780847694952
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 9.0"